Oral histories reveal a different Salinas

28 interviews help open the town's past

8:49 PM,
Dec. 12, 2012

Dorothy Wallace, shown in her home, looks over albums of newspaper clips she has kept that cover the years between World War I and World War II. Wallace was part of an oral history program Dec. 13 at the National Steinbeck Center. The program also included 'Latinos in Chinatown,' a continuation of the Chinatown project featured at the Steinbeck Center each spring the last three years. The California State University Monterey Bay Oral History and Community Memory service learning class has been working on the project.